2021

Every year in Lent the Church directs our thoughts to Jesus on the Cross. This is the sacred center of everything we believe and celebrate as Catholic Christians. Take away the Cross and you take away our salvation. Take away our salvation and everything “good” about the good news of the gospel evaporates.

As a zealous Evangelical high schooler, Scott Hahn would challenge his Catholic classmates with this question: “Where in the New Testament do you find the sacrifice of the Mass?” Not having a clear understanding of Scripture, his classmates could not refute Scott’s question and some became convinced that their Catholic faith had no biblical foundations.  

Let’s discuss the idea of calling priests “father.” In Matthew 23:9, when Jesus says, “And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven,” does Jesus mean that literally or is he just driving home a point using strong terminology? I would say it’s the latter. Catholics are criticized for this because Catholics call priests “father.”  

Ash Wednesday is the start of forty days in which we are called to grow closer to Jesus with focused effort. The Church guides us through the Season of Lent, and our path is marked with prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. We pray, fast, and give all the time, but we try to increase the quality and quantity during Lent.

We’re less than a week away from the debut of our newest video study, Parousia: The Bible and the Mass.

The opening chapters of Genesis are foundational for Jews and Christians. They give us a basic understanding of God, the world, ourselves, and the nature of our relationship to Him. The creation of human beings, male and female, is central to these chapters.

A recovery of the Catholic teaching on priesthood is urgently needed, both among the laity and the clergy.